August Wilhelm Dennstedt Explained

August Wilhelm Dennstedt (1776 - 1826), surname sometimes spelled Dennstaedt,^[1] was a German physician and botanist who was bürgermeister of Magdala, a town near Weimar. From 1817 he was scientific director of the Grand Ducal Garden in Belvedere.^{[2] [3]}

He was the taxonomic author of numerous botanical taxa; three examples being the genera Bruxanelia, Coulejia and Merremia. He entered many of his taxonomic findings in the register "Schlüssel zum Hortus indicus malabaricus".^[4] The genus Dennstaedtia Bernh. (family Dennstaedtiaceae) is named in his honor.^[5]

Published works

• Weimar's Flora: Pflanzen mit deutlichen Geschlechtern, Volume 1, 1800.
• Pflanzen mit Luftgefäßen, 1807.
• Nomenclator botanicus: seu, Enumeratio alphabetica omnium hucusque cognitorum vegetabilium, adjectis praecipuis synonymis, 1810.
• Das Gewächsreich: oder characterisirende Beschreibung aller zur Zeit bekannten Gewächse.
• Hortus Belvedereanus. Oder Verzeichniss der bestimmten Pflanzen, 1820.^[6]

Notes and References

1. http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=1871 Dennstedt, August Wilhelm
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=tbtIAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22August+Wilhelm+Dennstedt%22+Magdala&pg=RA1-PA281 Goethes Werke, Part 3
3. http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Goethe,+Johann+Wolfgang/Gespr%C3%A4che/Personenverzeichnis/Dabelow+-+Dyck Zeno.org
4. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do;jsessionid=5F0D8E7BCF4D1C9EF1C5740F29C0026D?find_family=&find_genus=&find_species=&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=Dennst.&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch IPNI
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=6YIJqE3Qep0C&dq=%22August+Wilhelm+Dennstedt%22+1776&pg=PA752 CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific ..., Volume 2
6. https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22August+Wilhelm+Dennstedt%22 Google Search